First Taste: Champagne Palmer & Co's Grands Terroirs 2015 and 2012
Notes and scores for two new Grand Terroirs premium cuvées...
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What is a ‘perpetual reserve’? – Ask Decanter
Champagne expert Giles Fallowfield explains this particular way of ageing reserve wines...
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Champagne 2021 harvest: Picking nears end as growers weigh losses
How the harvest is looking on the ground...
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Perrier-Jouët Belle Epoque: brut vintage and blanc de blancs vertical tasting
The purest expression of Perrier-Jouët style...
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How Champagne 2020 wines are shaping up
Giles Fallowfield reports from a 'vins clairs' tasting with top growers...
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Relaunch: Charles Heidsieck Mis en Cave Champagnes
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Investment analysis: Roederer's jewel, Cristal
What lies behind Cristal's status as one of the most sought-after and collectible Champagnes? Giles Fallowfield explains how it's made and tastes eight recent vintages...
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Veuve Clicquot to age Champagne in Baltic Sea
Veuve Clicquot has buried 300 bottles and 50 magnums of its Champagne in the Baltic Sea in an ageing experiment designed to commemorate the discovery of shipwrecked bottles in the same area in 2010.
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French retailer price battle 'threatens' Champagne image
Champagne producers have warned that a price war between two major French supermarket groups, Carrefour and Leclerc, risks damaging the region's image.
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UK Christmas Champagne price war begins early
Christmas price offers on Champagne in UK supermarkets have started early, and could be even fiercer than usual in 2013, as Tesco's wine category manager says the group has a 'strong plan' in place.
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Champagne 2013 harvest yields under pressure
Champagne is the latest region of France to see its 2013 harvest come under pressure from rot, but there is a mixed picture with picking only just underway in several key areas.
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Champagne yield set for 2013 harvest
The yield for the 2013 Champagne harvest has been set at 10,000 kilograms per hectare, with an additional 500kg/ha allowed to be released from producers' reserve stocks next February, the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC) has announced.
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Hail destroys 300ha of vineyards in Champagne, says report
Last weekend's severe hailstorms caused such extensive damage that several parts of the Champagne region lost up to half the potential 2013 crop, according to an official report issued yesterday.
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Champagne supplier Pressoirs de France rescued by Cos d'Estournel owner
The Pressoirs de France group, supplier of cheap Champagne to major UK supermarkets, has been saved by an investment from Switzerland-based French businessman Michel Reybier.
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UK 'not the future for Champagne growth'
The UK is not where growth for Champagne will be found in the future, the new president of the Union des Maisons de Champagne, Jean-Marie Barillère, has warned.
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Henri Krug dies
Henri Krug, former head of Champagne Krug, has died of cancer aged 76.
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Champagne negociant facing break-up
Champagne negociant business Pressoirs de France is almost certain to be broken up and its assets sold off after the company's administrator failed to sell it.
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Champagne supplier Pressoirs de France goes into administration
After weeks of speculation that it was in financial difficulties, the Pressoirs de France group - supplier of cheap Champagne to major UK supermarkets - has gone into receivership having failed to find a new financial backer.
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Obama menu 'Champagne' blunder threatens entente cordiale
Franco-American relations have been dealt a blow by the way a Californian Champagne has been listed on the menu for President Obama's second term inaugural lunch later this month.
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Three given suspended sentences for massive Champagne fraud
Three former managers of the Esterlin Champagne co-operative have been given eight-month suspended prison sentences and €2,000 fines for selling fake vintage Champagne.
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Champagne sales down for 2012
Champagne shipments will fall by around 3% in 2012 back to the level of 2005 and 2006.
